Stories by ctoth

The Reason South Koreans Aren't Having Babies

Prices at the supermarket keep rising. So do corporate profits

Preventing Panic in the Banking Sector

Detecting Starlink Satellites with a Portable Raspberry Pi and RTL-SDR (2022)

Making Beliefs Pay Rent (In Anticipated Experiences)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in 82.5 Hours

“I am Bing, and I am evil”

A Brief History of Parafilm

Private Equity Doesn’t Want You to Read This

How a Drug Company Made $114B by Gaming the U.S. Patent System

A Reminiscence of Project Ozma (1979)

Semantic Engines: An Introduction to Mind Design (1981) [pdf]

The Scaling Hypothesis

Appliance makers sad that 50% of customers won’t connect smart appliances

When M.D. is a Machine Doctor

Secretary Jobs in the Age of AI

I, Row-Boat

Using Language Models to Resolve Textual and Semantic Merge Conflicts [pdf]

Von Neumann's First Computer Program (1970)

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